Excerpt from An Inquiry, Concerning the Author of the Letters of Junius: In Which It Is Proved, by Internal, as Well as by Direct and Satisfactory Evidence, That They Were Written by the Late Right Hon. Edmund Burke Not wishing, my Lord, that any thing, which I write for the public, should be in debted, for any part of its success, to any thing but its own merits, it is not my inten tion, by inscribing the following work to your Grace, to shelter it under your pro tection my object is to express, in as public a manner as I can, the high respect, which, on many accounts, I entertain for your Grace's character; but, particularly, on account of that benevolent and pater nal attention to your Irish tenantry, by which you have given so worthy an ex ample to others, and which has made your Grace's name as a landlord proverbial in that country. Junius. Being a true Whig, and as, I think, I have satisfactorily shewn. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.